May 07, 2014 06:14 PMHarpal Singh, Mentor and Chairman Emeritus of Fortis Healthcare, in an interview to OneWorld South Asia, on the sidelines of UN Corporate MDG Conclave held in New Delhi, said that responsibility to society should be integral to working of business. Excerpts from the interview:
[India]
[Health and Nutrition]
[Sri Lanka]
[Healthcare]
[Health MDGs]
[Bangladesh]
[South Asia]

May 07, 2013 01:35 PMEvery year, over 309,300 children (29 per cent of global share) in India don't live beyond the first day because of pre-term birth, hygiene and maternal health complications, says the latest World Mothers Report authored by US-based organization, Save the Children. This is higher than for any of the other country 176 countries ranked in the report.
[South Asia]
[India]
[Child mortality]
[Health]

Apr 30, 2013 02:10 PMDuring a United Nations-backed global campaign to vaccinate children this week, Afghan Government officials are aiming to administer anti-measles and anti-polio vaccines along with additional doses of Vitamin A to about eight million children below five across the country.
[United Nations]
[Afghanistan]
[Health]
[Children]
[South Asia]

Nov 20, 2012 04:00 PMPranab Mukherjee, President of India, has launched a nationwide IEC campaign against malnutrition. The campaign is an initiative of the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
[India]
[Malnutrition]
[Health]
[South Asia]

Nov 06, 2012 10:50 AMThe introduction of a vaccine for pneumonia is an important milestone in the fight to reduce the burden caused by pneumonia in Pakistan, accounting for one of every five children dying before their fifth birthday.
[Health]
[Child mortality]
[South Asia]
[Pakistan]

Nov 05, 2012 04:25 PMRenowned photographer Raghu Rai, in collaboration with Save the Children India, has launched his photo book- ‘Outside the Margins’ along with a four-day long photo exhibition in Delhi which captures the deplorable condition of health among women and children in slums of Delhi, India.
[Child mortality]
[Save the Children]
[Children]
[India]
[Raghu Rai]

Jul 26, 2012 10:15 AMA United Nations-supported government campaign to eradicate measles and polio has vaccinated over 5.6 million children in Afghanistan over the past two weeks, and organisers are stressing the need for more funds to complete the effort next month.
[Afghanistan]
[United Nations]
[South Asia]

Apr 30, 2012 12:35 PMThe Awakening, a polio vaccination programme in Pakistan, has been awarded US$10,000 by the Southern Vaccine Advocacy Challenge for sensitising people, especially mothers, in Swat district of the country over the benefits of getting children immunised.
[Pakistan]
[Child mortality]
[South Asia]

Oct 25, 2011 04:31 PMIndia accounted for 22% of total rotavirus infection deaths in 2008, reveals a latest Lancet report. Near one lakh under five children died of diarrhoea owing to rotavirus infection, says the report.
[India]
[Health]
[Children]
[South Asia]

Oct 20, 2011 02:37 PMA toll-free ambulance service in the southern state has attended over 900 pregnancy-related calls and assisted the delivery of 29 children in less than six months.
[India]
[Health]
[South Asia]

Oct 19, 2011 12:44 PMAn infant malaria vaccine has reduced the risk of malaria by half, reveals a year long study on 15,000 African children. Around 225 million people suffer from malaria each year resulting in 800,000 deaths globally.
[Health]
[Africa]
[Malaria]